There will be many times in your lives--- at school, and more particularly when you are a grown up---when people will distract or divert you from what needs to be done. You may even welcome the distraction. But if you use it as an excuse for not doing what you suppose to do, you can blame no one but yourself. If you truly wish to accomplish something, you should allow nothing to stop you, and chances are you'll succeed.

I think family matters to me enormously. In fact, family is the first priority. If my family is good, I can do anything. If they're not, I'm a basket case.

Be a part of all that is decent and be an ambassador for the kind of world that you want to live in.

Well it's all right to cry. It helps a great deal sometimes.

Mary Poppins is magical and fun.

I thought it was all a flash in the pan. It wasn't until Broadway came along that I felt I had really made it.

I love singing, and I came to absolutely adore it in the later part of my career.